Fourever You Series Review: A Love Quad Stretched Too Thin
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‘Fourever You’ is the kind of campus romance that throws viewers back to the 2017-18 era of Thai BLs, when they were far too few, so fans of the genre would we happy with whatever they could get. But cut to 2025, and viewers are spoiled for choice, there are so many options that it’s hard to keep up with BL content. It’s the kind of familiar, silly college romance, where the lead is completely confused over whether his crush likes him back, despite having kissed each other (while they were sober).
Directed by New Siwaj Sawatmaneekul (We Are, A Boss and a Babe) and Ko Nantalit Tampacha, the Thai series Fourever You follows two college roommates who are looking forward to a fun campus life but instead get caught up in relationship troubles when they are romantically pursued by two popular seniors. Earth Katsamonnat Namwirote and Bas Hatsanat Piniwat play roommates Easter and North, respectively. Pond Ponlawit Ketprapakorn plays Hill, who wants to date Easter, while his best friend, Johan (played by Maxky Ratchata Pichetshote), the “hot, playboy” of the campus, is interested in the carefree North.
Spanning 17 episodes, Fourever You surprisingly begins with a steamy scene but soon shifts focus to the hilarious roommate dynamic between protagonists Easter (Earth Katsamonnat Namwirote) and North (Bas Hatsanat Piniwat). While Easter is cheery, childish, and full of self-doubt, North is laid-back, unbothered, and always playing games in his free time. Their interactions as friends are pretty cute in the first few episodes, but soon, as the series begins to heavily focus on Easter’s crush on senior Hill, Fourever You goes slightly downhill. The posters for the show make you believe that the screen time will be evenly split between the four protagonists, but there are also a bunch of other side romances that are mostly ignored, despite the generous 17-episode runtime.
Early on, it’s clearly established that Hill loves Easter and vice versa, but for the stupidest of reasons, Easter keeps thinking Hill likes his sister or someone else, despite Hill asking him upfront if he’d like to be Hill’s boyfriend. The directors reduce Easter’s character to an annoying little kid who has no idea what’s happening around him, while Pond Ponlawit Ketprapakorn looks confused most of the time. Easter and Hill’s romance is prolonged into a “situationship” for no reason, with multiple soppy flashbacks showing how the two were more than just friends during high school too. At one point, I was simply skipping most scenes with Easter and Hill, since nothing substantial was happening between their characters.
Fourever You is a lot more watchable when the story focuses on the unlikely romance between the “hot and cold” Johan, a super-rich senior who is also working most of the time for his dad’s business, but is smitten with North. When North gets into a drunken brawl with some university students over his ex-girlfriend, Johan comes to his rescue, and North ends up breaking lots of expensive stuff at Johan’s home, becoming his debtor. Johan keeps making North run errands for him, and the two begin to fall in mutual love. Again, this is a very familiar trope in BL dramas. For instance, in the Thai series We Are, one of the protagonists owes a lot of money to a rich guy he eventually falls for. But despite the familiarity, Bas Hatsanat Piniwat and Maxky Ratchata Pichetshote not only make a visually striking couple but are also cute in terms of the “rich, serious, hot guy falls for the poor, cute goofball” trope.
Overall, Fourever You feels overly stretched and would have benefited from tighter editing and a more balanced distribution of screen time among its protagonists. Thankfully, at least it ends on a concrete note, giving both leads pairs a conclusive climax.
Rating: 5 on 10. Watch the series on WeTV.
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